You need to be able to communicate confidently with digital media tools. Each one of these tools could take a lifetime of study on their own. In this section of the course you will create a class resource that will help you with your project reports.
Graphics | Audio | Video | Animation | 3-D Modelling
We will start with these questions.
What can be made with these tools, what jobs can they perform?
What are the basic functions?
What are the essential techniques?
How do design principles and elements apply?
Who are some famous artists?
What are some famous works?
We are going to answer these questions for each of the above tools. We will then apply what we have learnt and produce our own material using these tools.
We will consider the following question about our own work
What is good about it?
How could we improve the form and function
How do the answers to the questions above relate to our work?
You will be working in groups and individually and you will need a shared web space in which to publish your work.
GRAPHICS TASK IDEAS
Virtual make over, fake photo, skins, web banner for this page, interface, web image map.
AUDIO IDEAS
Radio play, 8 packs, Radio advert, Original recording, 2nd Language conversation, soundtrack to movie scene
VIDEO IDEAS
Edit school event footage, 2min phone movie, how to movie, famous scene remake, youtube response, enter a competition
ANIMATION IDEAS
3D MODELLING IDEAS
COMMUNICATING WITH DIGITAL MEDIA TOOLS
You need to be able to communicate confidently with digital media tools. Each one of these tools could take a lifetime of study on their own. In this section of the course you will create a class resource that will help you with your project reports.
Graphics | Audio | Video | Animation | 3-D Modelling
We will start with these questions.
We are going to answer these questions for each of the above tools. We will then apply what we have learnt and produce our own material using these tools.
We will consider the following question about our own work
You will be working in groups and individually and you will need a shared web space in which to publish your work.
GRAPHICS TASK IDEAS
Virtual make over, fake photo, skins, web banner for this page, interface, web image map.
AUDIO IDEAS
Radio play, 8 packs, Radio advert, Original recording, 2nd Language conversation, soundtrack to movie scene
VIDEO IDEAS
Edit school event footage, 2min phone movie, how to movie, famous scene remake, youtube response, enter a competition
ANIMATION IDEAS
3D MODELLING IDEAS
AUDIO
Excercise 3: Audacity Written Tutorials
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/tutorials.html
Use the link to the Audacity tutorial above to answer the following.
1. Why is there no sound in space?
2. Explain in your own words how the sound from another persons voice travels to your ear.
3. What does frequency measure?
4. How is analogue recording different from digital recording?
5. Name two examples of PCM file types.
6. Name two types of compressed sound files.
7. What are the three rules of Audacity?
8. What is the difference between a clip and a track?
9. What is meant by ambiance, foley and effects?